Saturday, June 11, 2016

If you have ever read Green Mount After the War also by Betsy Fleet, copyright 1978, then you are familiar with the name Martha Gaines Baylor. Well, fortunately descendants of hers visited Green Mount in April of this year and they had a photo of her, her husband Richard, one of their sons Herman and another relative, a little girl named Dorothy Baylor [Brown]. She was the daughter of Harry Washington Baylor and Gustavia Corbin Baylor. Thanks to Crystal Baylor Satchell and her brother Warner Baylor I have permission to post these pictures. In the beginning of Green Mount After the War Betsy says that Martha always reminded her of a cylindrical Christmas tree when she was dressed in her fancy clothes. Here she is dressed in her Mid-Wife uniform. That's what she was, a mid-wife. Her husband Richard was a brick mason. Thank you Crystal and Warner and the rest of your family for finally putting names to these faces. We believe that Martha was the last of the servants buried in the slave cemetery here at Green Mount and we think we have finally found that too. It is pretty much directly across from the Fleet family cemetery, just on the other side of the dirt road that divides the property.

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